Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 37
Then the king again said to the lion: ‘You have deceived me, they are men, for they have not looked at the spinning-wheels.’
Who acts: king, You, huntsmen · What happens: say, deceive, be, not look · To what, where: me, men, huntsmen, spinning wheels · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, You, huntsmen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lion | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lion | det |
| 8 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 deceived | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 deceived | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 deceived | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 deceived | aux |
| 13 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 deceived | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 men | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 men | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 men | cop |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 deceived | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looked | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 looked | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 looked | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 looked | advmod |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 deceived | parataxis |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 wheels | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wheels | det |
| 27 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wheels | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 spinning | punct |
| 29 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 looked | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | then; again | to the lion | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to lion=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | deceive | present · perfect | You | me | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | huntsmen = huntsman | men | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not look | present · perfect · passive | huntsmen = huntsman | the spinning wheels | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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